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'''Sir Frederic Styles Philpin Lely''', KCIE, CSI (16 December 1846 – 21 November 1934) was a British administrator in India. He was [[List of governors of the Central Provinces and Berar|Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces]] from 1904 to 1905.

==Life==
He was the son of Moses Philpin, a Baptist minister of [[Alcester]], and his wife Marietta Lely of [[Trelleck]].<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who|id=U212788|title=Lely, Sir Frederic Styles Philpin|access-date=9 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Baptist Magazine |date=1845 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K1MEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90 |language=en}}</ref> He studied at [[Regent's Park College]],<ref name="WW"/> and matriculated at [[Pembroke College, Oxford]] in 1866.<ref>{{alox2|title=Philpin, Frederick Style}}</ref> He added his mother's surname to his name in 1869.<ref name="WW"/> That year he joined the [[Indian Civil Service]].<ref name="IDB">{{cite IBD1915|wstitle=Lely, Sir Frederic Styles Philpin}}</ref>

In India, Lely was administrator of [[Sachin State]] and [[Porbandar State]], in 1886, before becoming Collector and Magistrate in [[Surat]] in 1892. He was Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces in 1904, before retiring in 1905.<ref name="IDB"/>

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